Gehry Partners, LLP-Science Library

Nearing completion
Gehry Partners, LLP
Science Library
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

Photo: Michael O'Boyle

The Science Library, located on a two acre site on the main campus, is envisioned as an efficient, easily accessible environment conducive to the research requirements of the Princeton University community in the 21st century

Ando, Gehry, Hadid, and Nouvel-Saadiyat Island--Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ando, Gehry, Hadid, and Nouvel
Saadiyat Island
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Saadiyat Island, just offshore the emirate, will become a new world-class cultural destination.

Four renowned architects have been commissioned by Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) for iconic museums and a performing arts centre which will position the UAE capital’s Saadiyat Island, that lies just offshore the emirate, as a world-class cultural destination.

Tadao Ando is designing the Maritime Museum, Frank Gehry the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Zaha Hadid the Saadiyat’s Performing Arts Centre, and Jean Nouvel is designing the Classical Museum.

Image courtesy Tadao Ando Architects

Ando’s Maritime Museum concept takes its inspiration from Abu Dhabi’s natural surroundings, landscape and maritime traditions. It has a reflective surface visually merging sea and land. Its ship-like interior has floating decks which guide visitors through the exhibition space

Steven Holl Architects-Knut Hamsun Center

Steven Holl Architects
Knut Hamsun Center
Hamaröy, Norway

Photo: Nordland County Council / Tore Schöning Olsen

Knut Hamsun, Norway's most inventive twentieth-century writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel Hunger. He went on to found a truly modern school of fiction with his works Pan, Mysteries, and Growth of the Soil.